Contemplating the idea that in a few hundred or thousand of years the #future us may look on this time of #data #liberty that this time may be compared to the ancient experiments with #democracy #republic and #selfgovernment which the #greek and #roman peoples did. We are breaking free from our failed #monarchical and closed #despotic #corporate ownership of data and freeing it whenever possible. The #fediverse is one of our clearest examples.

Selling #Mastodon on "people are nice here" is completely the #wrong move. I don't want vanilla posts consisting of cat pics and #utopian wet dreams. I want hard hitting #stories and #discussions about global/local issues, politics, and personal struggles. And that means many different viewpoints, including ones that aren't agreed upon by the majority. The selling point for Mastodon is that a #despotic #billionaire or mega-#corporation can't #dictate what is the "right" thing to talk about.